People Archive
- Amy Stein - Stranded
- Davin — March 22nd, 2008
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Recently presented as part of SMoCA’s Car Culture exhibition, Amy Stein’s on-going Stranded series visualizes American social and political isolation. Stein’s extensive travels across the US to purposefully witness motorists stranded in America’s in-between spaces form a unique look at another middle America. I talked with Amy about Stranded and her motivations.
- Posted in Interviews, People — 1 Comment
- Women in Art Photography panel
- Davin — March 18th, 2008
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Humble Arts Foundation and 3rd Ward are presenting a panel discussion moderated by Amy Stein with an wonderful cross-section of female photographers: Rachael Dunville, Tema Stauffer, Cara Phillips, Mary Mattingly, and Sarah Small.
Women in Art Photography
Saturday, March 22, 6 – 8 pm
3rd Ward
195 Morgan Avenue
Brooklyn, NYRSVP to events@hafny.org
humbleartsfoundation.org/wiap_panel.html
Mostly unrelated web rant… hey Humble folks, why is the majority of the text on your site rendered as images?
- Posted in Events, Organizations, People, Questions — 1 Comment
- Robyn Cumming
- Davin — March 18th, 2008
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Toronto photographer Robyn Cumming was interviewed about her latest work, Little Legs by Heather Morton. I interviewed Cumming a couple of years ago about her series In Place and as Morton notes, it’s exciting to see where she has taken things in her current work.There is also a follow-up post discussing Cumming’s editorial/commercial work which is very timely given the amount of blog talk around the “fine art” photographers doing commercial work.
Morton is an independent art buyer, a misunderstood and to most people invisible profession and her new site already gives a different and interesting perspective — plus she’s also based in Toronto so there’s a further personal interest on the art buying decisions made by Canadian agencies and publications.
- Posted in Interviews, People, Websites — Comment
- Is it possible to make a photograph of New Jersey regardless of where you are in the world?
- Davin — February 1st, 2008
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If you’ve ever visited Laurel Ptak’s i heart photograph then you’ll know that she truly does love photography and shares that love by featuring a vast and diverse array of visual work from around the world. Not to be limited to this curatorial outlet, Laurel has recently announced an open call for a multidisciplinary exhibition at New Jersey’s Pierro Gallery called, Is it possible to make a photograph of New Jersey regardless of where you are in the world?You were born in New Jersey. You’ve been there. You’ve never been there. You know it from movies. TV. Songs. Newspapers. You’ve Googled it. YouTubed it. Wikipediaed it. Flickred it. You’ve never even heard of it.
So ask yourself: is it possible to make a photograph of New Jersey regardless of where you are in the world? The Pierro Gallery and iheartphotograph.com invite photographers, designers, and artists of all kinds to participate in this global open call for work.
February 22, 2008 is the deadline for submissions. No fees are required to enter.
- Posted in Exhibitions, People — Comment
- Pause, to Begin. Again.
- Davin — January 31st, 2008
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Back in November, I briefly mentioned Ethan Jones and David Wright’s project Pause, to Begin — a multi-faceted photo initiative that will in-part result in the creation of a book. Jones, Wright and a team of “creatives” and “advisors” have now launched a new site that goes into more detail about the project and also introduces a blog.
The blog is already quite active and worth checking out. Photographers interested in being involved in the process have until April 1, 2008 to apply.
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- The Photographs Not Taken
- Davin — January 18th, 2008
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Will Steacy is a photographer and writer living in New York. He recently launched a project entitled The Photographs Not taken, in which he has collected the words of almost thirty photographers – words which take the place of photographs that they could, or would not take.
“The Photographs Not Taken is a collection of essays by photographers about the times they didn’t use their camera. This collection is a series of photographs not taken with a camera, but, instead, lived and remembered. Here the basic set of rules that apply to the making of a photograph are put into reverse; instead of looking out into the world through a camera lens, this series of essays looks directly into the photographer’s eye and mind and focuses on where the photographs come from.” – Will Steacy
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- Greg Girard on CBC Arts
- Davin — December 15th, 2007
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There’s a nice narrated slideshow by Greg Girard on CBC.ca about the images from his Phantom Shanghai book. It’s a quick watch at just under 4 minutes but it does a great job of contextualizing the images. I’m actually long overdue in doing an interview with Girard having contacted him a few months ago when the Phantom Shanghai images were being exhibited at Toronto’s Monte Clark Gallery. - Posted in Books, Interviews, People, Video — Comment
- The Ones We Love
- Davin — December 15th, 2007
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Lindley Warren recently launched a new project called The Ones We Love.“The Ones We Love is a project highlighting young and talented photographers from around the world. Each artist contributed six photographs of the person who is most important to them, taken outdoors in a natural setting. The goal of the website is to portray the people who are loved, cherished, and inspirational to these artists, and also showcase the differences and similarities in the photographs each of them took within the same guidelines.” — theoneswelove.org
As an aside, it’s interesting to see the number of projects appearing with a focus on young and emerging photographers. It’s a good thing to happen of course but I had this experience yesterday that made me think about the emphasis on youth when it comes to judging someone’s emerging status.
I consider myself an emerging photographer. Despite being 38 years old and graduating from university in 1994, i only picked up a camera in earnest about 3 years ago. Yesterday I noticed that the Canadian foundation, Magenta Publishing for the Arts had opened online submissions for Flash Forward 2008 their emerging photographers exchange. The project results in an annual hardcover book featuring Canadian, US, and UK photographers. I had resolved that I would get my shit togther and submit the ten photos required this year after quickly looking at the submission page. I pulled together my ten low res shots fairly easily but when I went back to read the details of what I had to do next I noticed that “emerging” means quite specifically “under 34″ to Magenta. I was a bit put off by that and emailed them to see if I could get some clarification on their reasoning for setting an age limit.
So, are emerging and young the same thing? And if so, why?
- Posted in People, Rant, Websites — 4 Comments
- NY Arts - Jonathan Feinstein talks to Grant Willing
- Davin — December 12th, 2007
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The January-February 2008 issue of NY Arts Magazine has a conversation between Jon Feinstein (Curatorial Director of the Humble Arts Foundation) and Grant Willing (co-founder of Fjord).
- Posted in Interviews, People, Websites — Comment
- 2Point8 - Joel Meyerowitz Part 2
- Davin — December 9th, 2007
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MIchael David Murphy has posted the second part of his interview with Joel Meyerowitz. He talks to Meyerowitz about his seminal book Bystander: A History of Street Photography and about the continued democratization of photography as a medium.
“It used to be 35mm, and now it’s digital. The camera’s the same, though - people pick it up and use it, like a fountain pen. Everybody writes something with it; a check, a story, a prescription. It’s writing. And photography’s the same - it’s democratic in that way. Everyone can use it, but not everyone makes art.” — Joel Meyerowitz
Check out the other discussions at 2Point8.
- Posted in Books, Interviews, People, Websites — Comment
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